Request on a How To Enhance Saturation

I am using ULead Photoimpact 7 and was wondering if anyone knows how to make a picture so it has saturated color. Many photographers have used this effect in many of their wedding shots by using Highly Saturated Color Film (so I was told).

1. I can't see a photo at that link
2. Almost all photo editing software has a control to increase saturation. I'm not a PhotoImpact user, but we do have some here. I'm sure it has this control. Try searching the helpfile for 'saturation'.

Welcome to the site. I was not able to get the link to display a photo. If you could post the photo here, that would be better so people in the future could see the image in question. Links die, but one posted on this forum will be around for quite some time. To make an attachment, look a little above the "submit reply" button. That is where you put your attachment, but be aware of the file size, as indicated below "Attach file".

Anon,
The link still doesn't work. You may have to try uploading it here. Below your Post Reply, you will see Attach file, you can browse your file to upload a Jpeg about 100 kb in size. You may have to resize a copy of the image.
DJ

DJ, I did get the link to work by highlighting it, copying, then pasting into my browser window (as oppsed to just clicking on it.) However, it would still be great if you could attach the photo as DJ suggested, Anon. That way it will be here when others read the thread in the future and are trying to figure out what you're referring to.

Now that I've seen the photo, I don't think the effect is difficult to achieve. Anon, I'm not familiar with PhotoImpact 7, but like Doug said earlier, you should have a tool for adjusting the saturation. Search Help for "saturation" and let us know what you find. In Photoshop, it is found under Image->Adjust->Hue/Saturation...

After you have found the correct tool, just turn the saturation way up until you find a result that you like. In Photoshop, my guess is that it would be around +30 to +40 (out of a possible 100). You may have to be selective though, because if there is any red at all in the skin tones, that will be greatly exaggerated. (In which case, I would select the skin tones adjust the saturation in them separately from the rest of the photo.)

I've attached an example of this technique applied to one of the photos in my files. (The top one looks "normal" when not viewed next to the over saturated one, but looks very flat next to it!) All I did was apply a saturation of +40 to the entire photo.